Jionni Conforti's sex and gender discrimination lawsuit comes as new regulations hailed as groundbreaking anti-discrimination protections for transgender people are under legal attack from religious groups.

The church is at her absolute best when she is a bold and prophetic voice for the power of the love upon which our faith is based.

The march and its counter-protest showed the sharp divide in how blacks and whites view the police in a city with few integrated neighborhoods.

Each of the participants carried wooden crosses bearing the names of victims.

Archbishop Wester: "Countless nonprofits and civic organizations work to fill food baskets, but some legislators want to take food out of another basket, the grocery basket, with their proposed food tax."

Accompaniment, unlike charity, can't be done from a distance.